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By Matthew Westphal
28 Sep 2007
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Early this month, Gramophone magazine announced the finalists — the "shortlist," as they say on that side of the Atlantic — for the 2007 Classic FM Gramophone Awards (co-sponsored by the British radio network).
The journal's critics have selected three releases as finalists for each of 15 categories; all 45 titles are listed below. The winners in each group will be announced at a ceremony at London's Dorchester Hotel next Wednesday, October 3. Also presented will be the Gramophone Record of the Year and Label of the Year prizes — as well as the Artist of the Year award, selected by public vote at www.gramophone.co.uk.
FINALISTS FOR 2007 CLASSIC FM GRAMOPHONE AWARDS
Baroque instrumental
- Arne: Overtures
Collegium Musicum 90 / Simon Standage (Chandos) - Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for violin
John Holloway (ECM New Series) - Handel: Concerti grossi, Op. 3
Academy of Ancient Music / Richard Egarr (Harmonia Mundi)
Baroque vocal
- Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 15
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists / John Eliot Gardiner (SDG) - Handel: Messiah (1742 version)
Dunedin Consort & Players / John Butt (Linn) - Monteverdi: Madrigali guerrieri et amorosi
Concerto Italiano / Rinaldo Alessandrini (Naďve)
Chamber
- Bartók, Hindemith: String Quartets
Zehetmair Quartet (ECM New Series) - Brahms: Piano Quartets
Leopold Trio, Marc-André Hamelin (Hyperion) - Haas, Janácek: String Quartets
Pavel Haas Quartet (Supraphon)
Choral
- Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem
Röschmann, Quasthoff, Berlin Radio Choir, Berlin Philharmonic / Simon Rattle (EMI Classics) - Elgar: The Spirit of England
Gritton, A. Kennedy, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus / David Lloyd-Jones (Dutton) - Wesley: Anthems
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge / Christopher Robinson (Naxos)
Concerto
- Brahms: Piano Concertos
Nelson Freire, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra / Riccardo Chailly (Decca Classics) - Medtner, Tchaikovsky: Piano Concertos
Yevgeny Sudbin; Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de Săo Paulo / John Neschling (BIS) - Saint-Saëns: Violin Concertos
Jean-Jacques Kantorow et al., Tapiola Sinfonietta / Kees Bakels (BIS)
Contemporary
- J. Anderson: Alhambra Fantasy
BBC Symphony Orchestra / Oliver Knussen (Ondine) - J. Anderson: The Book of Hours
City of Birmingham SO & Chorus / Martyn Brabbins and Sakari Oramo,
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group / Oliver Knussen (NMC) - P. Lieberson: Neruda Songs
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Boston Symphony Orchestra / James Levine (Nonesuch)
DVD
- Mahler: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 8
London Philharmonic Orchestra / Klaus Tennstedt (EMI Classics) - Mozart: Cosě fan tutte
Glyndebourne Festival Opera / Iván Fischer (Opus Arte) - "My Life in Music"
Julian Bream (Avie)
Early Music
- Byrd: Laudibus in sanctis
The Cardinall's Musick (Hyperion) - Crecquillon: Missa mort m'a privé
Brabant Ensemble / Stephen Rice (Hyperion) - Jenkins: Five-Part Consorts
Phantasm (Avie)
Historic archive
- R. Strauss: Four Last Songs, Wagner: Scenes
Kirsten Flagstad, Philharmonia Orchestra / Wilhelm Furtwängler (Testament) - Verdi: Don Carlo
Vickers, Gobbi, Christoff, Brouwenstijn, Barbieri, Langdon /
Royal Opera / Carlo Maria Giulini (Royal Opera House Heritage Series) - Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Varnay, Windgassen, Ilosvay, Greindl, Uhde, Neidlinger /
Bayreuth Festival Opera / Joseph Keilberth (Testament)
Historic reissue
- "Ernest Ansermet - The Decca Recordings"
Ernest Ansermet (Decca Classics) - Moeran: Symphony in G minor, Sinfonietta, Overture for a Masque
London Philharmonic Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra / Adrian Boult (Lyrita) - "Sir Clifford Curzon, Volume 4"
Clifford Curzon (Decca)
Instrumental
- Bach: Suites for unaccompanied cello
Steven Isserlis (Hyperion) - Haydn: Piano Sonatas
Marc-André Hamelin (Hyperion) - Medtner: Skazki (complete)
Hamish Milne (Hyperion)
Opera
- Donizetti: Dom Sébastien, roi de Portugal
Filianoti, Kasarova, Miles, Keenlyside /
Royal Opera / Mark Elder (Opera Rara) - Janácek: The Makropulos Case
Cheryl Barker, et al. / English National Opera / Charles Mackerras (Chandos) - Rossini: Matilde di Shabran
Annick Massis, Juan Diego Flórez /
Orquesta sinfónica de Galicia / Riccardo Frizza (Decca Classics)
Orchestral
- Bartók: Kossuth, The Wooden Prince
Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra / Zoltán Kocsis (Hungaroton) - Nielsen: Orchestral Works
Danish National Symphony Orchestra / Thomas Dausgaard (Dacapo) - Prokofiev: Complete Symphonies
London Symphony Orchestra / Valery Gergiev (Philips)
Recital
- R. Strauss: Four Last Songs, Opera Scenes
Nina Stemme, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Antonio Pappano (EMI Classics) - "The Russian Album"
Anna Netrebko, Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra / Valery Gergiev (Deutsche Grammophon) - "Tales of Opera"
Simon Keenlyside, Münchner Rundfunkorchester / Ulf Schirmer (Sony Classical)
Solo vocal
- Brahms: Lieder
Bernarda Fink, Roger Vignoles (Harmonia Mundi) - Handel, Mahler, P. Lieberson: Songs
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Roger Vignoles (Wigmore Hall) - R. Strauss: Lieder
Jonas Kaufmann, Helmut Deutsch (Harmonia Mundi)
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